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In the hills of Georgia live a family of hillbillies. They're also squids. These squidbillies drink, make meth, mud-bog, and destroy property. The characters are:
* Early Cuyler, an extremely violent and drunk redneck. His hat always changes between shows, usually saying something like "Booty Hunter", "Sonny Lied!", or "Guns Don't Kill People, I Do". He has gone to prison and is often scolded by the sheriff for making pinecone moonshine or holding up the convenience store. He was made CEO of the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]'s company to act as a scapegoat.
* Rusty Cuyler, Early's son. He is more naïve and morally centered, but is also dumb and gullible. He is a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]].
* Granny Cuyler, the feeble and senile mother of Early and Lil (maybe their granny or great granny, it's unclear the exact relation). She often sees visions of squid-Jesus.
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* Dan Halen, the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and owner of Dan Halen Industries. His company appears to make sheetrock, but really dabbles in violent mutant corn, corrosive body spray, baby death traps, and foreign arms sales. Dan is a (usually) naked, pear-shaped blob of flesh with long red hair; good luck assigning a species to him. Revealed in an episode focused on him to have existed throughout the history of mankind in the exact same form, and to have been a part of many terrible events. Including the German Nazi Party.
 
'''''Squidbillies''''' has been running on [[Adult Swim]] since October 2005. It finished its 12th season in September 2019 and has been confirmed for a thirteenth season.
This [[Adult Swim]] show premiered in October 2005.
 
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'''This show provides examples of:'''
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Early has knifed and shot Rusty a few times, among other things.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Early Cuyler is rarely without his homemade pine cone "party liquor".
{{quote| '''Early''': Damn don't time fly when you're drunk as hell!}}
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Dan Halen, Hershel Walker Cuyler Them Dogs Is Hell Don't They, [[Overly Long Name|Russell Jesse James Kenny the gambler Rogers #3 the intimidator Dale Earnhardt America's Number 1 Cuyler]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Granny Cuyler and the Sheriff, but just about everyone else could qualify at times, too.
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*** Similarly, the Sheriff is [[Made of Plasticine]], but you'd be surprised how well he survives losing his organs, losing his head, getting savagely beat up, etc.
* [[Caught Up in the Rapture]]: Squid-Jesus accidentally turns on the Rapture and everyone starts floating up to heaven. Dan Halen, not to be left behind, takes a rocket pack and flies up to heaven to cut in line. Heaven apparently has a limit to how many people can get in, because Dan was the last person allowed in, leaving the Sheriff to go back down. Meanwhile, the Reverend is still down on Earth, lamenting about not being chosen.
{{quote| "Why did he reject me?! '''THEY EVEN TOOK THE MEXICANS FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!''' They can't even pray in English!"}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tom Treebow, full stop.
{{quote| '''Rusty:''' So, Jesus is here with us right now?<br />
'''Tom Treebow:''' Yes, he's right there... he's wearing an invisibility cloak. Just like the [[Predator]].<br />
'''Sheriff:''' (beat) What Tom is trying to say...<br />
'''Tom Treebow:''' ''Watch out Jesus he's got a laser!'' }}
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Dan Halen's plots are usually ''far'' more complex than the end goal justifies, such as using a massive clone army to rig the vote to revoke Dougal County's dry Sunday status, making the whole city blind so as to win a softball game, or building a copy of the Large Hadron Collider to open a black hole for the sole purpose of disposal of a dead hooker.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Dan Halen in spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds. When his "Baby Hammock" product is described by parents as a baby death trap, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120725105317/http://video.adultswim.com/squidbillies/the-baby-hammock.html he sues the parents] for infringing on his copyright for a product called the "Baby Death Trap."
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Most of Dan Halen's products. See above.
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* [[May Contain Evil]]: Dan Halen's products.
* [[Mega Corp]]: Dan Halen Sheetrock International.
{{quote| '''Narrator:''' "That large building over there is Dan Halen Sheetrock; they specialize in sheetrock, sheetrock mud, sheetrock screws, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, global mass media, third world covert military operations and, '''THE BABY HAMMOCK!'''"}}
* [[Musical Episode]]: "America: Why I Love Her".
* [[My Little Panzer]]
* [[Negative Continuity]]: How many times have the world exploded in this series?
** Somewhat subverted with Sheriff's many deaths, as one episode revealed a massive clone farm that Dan Halen breeds for election purposes. The Sheriff's deaths are even [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]].
{{quote| '''Rusty:''' "Daddy, I think he's dead!"<br />
'''Early:''' "Not the first time." }}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Rusty Cuyler, to an extent.
** Occasionally the Sheriff, when he's not being the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] with an [[Expansion Pack Past]].
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Charles Napier was the voice of the Sheriff in the first nine episodes, being replaced by Bobby Ellerbee afterwards.
* [[Quarter Hour Short]]
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Dan Halen is really 20,000 years old and have been behind countless acts of evil, like helping Hitler, causing the Black Death, killing dozens in the French Revolution and ''nailing Jesus to the cross''.
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: "I'm not a therapist. I'm... The Rapist. It's right there on the door. Look, everybody makes this mistake."
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The Sheriff, often literally. Good thing he has several hundred replacement bodies.
* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: This seems to be Early's only way to teach Rusty anything.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Early.
* [[White Sheep]]: Early's civilized cousin, Durwood. {{spoiler|also [[Long-Lost Relative|Dr. Bug.]] }}
* [[Yandere]]: Early is this for Krystal. Seriously.
{{quote| "I love you... *draws knife* I'MMA KILL YOU, BITCH!!!"}}
 
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